Woman Masturbating In Public Arrested, Continues In Police Car

A woman was arrested after she masturbated in public outside a hotel in Austin, Texas. According to reports, Dovie Nickels, 26, was half-naked when police arrived at the JW Marriott hotel Tuesday evening and handcuffed her.

According to a report in the Austin American-Statesman, police responded to a complaint about a woman across the street “holding a silver object” against her privates “with her legs straight up in the air, spread open.” A hotel employee said that he “could hear Nickels making moaning noises,” according to the affidavit. The employee said she was masturbating on the patio “for approximately 7 or 8 minutes” before heading to the Second Bar across the street.

The employee said he had approached the woman to tell her to stop, but she allegedly shouted at him to go back.

When police arrived, they found the woman sitting alone at a Second Bar + Kitchen patio table along the 200 block of Congress Avenue. Nickels reportedly continued to masturbate even after she was handcuffed and put in the back of police car.

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Joel Cholo Brooks is a Liberian journalist who previously worked for several international news outlets including the BBC African Service. He is the CEO of the Global News Network which publishes two local weeklies, The Star and The GNN-Liberia Newspapers. He is a member of the Press Union Of Liberia (PUL) since 1986, and several other international organizations of journalists, and is currently contributing to the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation as Liberia Correspondent.